Where these emails get written

This is the main place these emails get written:

Sometimes they get written here too:

Notice that there is not a keyboard in either of these photos. Writing is not the words you use, it is the idea you are talking about, and the best ideas come when your mind is free to float.

What does this have to do with your presentations? A good presentation does not come from PowerPoint magic. It comes from having something to say, and figuring out how to say it well.

When someone at work tells you a presentation is needed, your first acts should be to stand up, step away from your computer, and go outside.

In 15 minutes, when you know what you’re going to say and how you’re going to say it, then you can come back in and sit down at your desk and fire up PowerPoint.

As John Cleese says,

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